We construct, analyze and solve models of systems where a number of servers offer services to an incoming stream of demands. Each server goes through alternating periods of being ...
We propose an efficient placement algorithm and per-disk prefetching method to effectively support interactive operations in the media server. Our placement policy is incorporate...
It has been well established that most operating system crashes are due to bugs in device drivers. Because drivers are normally linked into the kernel address space, a buggy drive...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
Systems Managed Storage is a proven concept in traditional mainframe computing. Client-Server operating systems have traditionally lacked the tape I/O subsystem, file system intel...
Integration--supporting multiple application classes with heterogeneous requirements--is an emerging trend in networks, file systems, and operating systems. In this paper, we eval...